Like, seeing it in original context, it neither screams "Nazi" nor "having enough aesthetic value for Nazis to bother appropriating"
Like, seeing it in original context, it neither screams "Nazi" nor "having enough aesthetic value for Nazis to bother appropriating"
They did the same thing when Hot Topic started selling the rage guy. They said he was actually the "race guy" and started posting racist stuff and then publicly demanded to know why Hot Topic would dare to sell racist paraphernalia.
Hot Topic was basically like "okay, whatever, we know this is a prank, but we're just gonna pull it because it's not worth it"
That probably served as the template for nazi pepe memes.